Douglas Coupland Quotes
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.
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I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.
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For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.
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Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
